Posts Tagged ‘crime-scene’

Tightrope (1984)

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Clint Eastwood | Dan Hedaya | Marco St. John | Graham Paul | Bill Holliday | John Wilmot | Joy N. Houck Jr. | Stuart Baker-Bergen | Donald Barber | Robert Harvey | Ron Gural | Layton Martens | Richard Charles Boyle | Jonathan Sachar | Lionel Ferbos
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A New Orleans detective is leading an investigation into a killer who is raping and murdering women. His enquiries lead him into the seedy side of town where he is no stranger off-duty. All this contrasts with his home life as a single parent with two young girls. Then on the case he meets rape counsellor Beryl Thibodeaux with whom a relationship possibly offering some normalcy starts to develop.

Grudge, The (2004)

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Germany | Japan | USA
Actors: Sarah Michelle Gellar | Jason Behr | William Mapother | Clea DuVall | KaDee Strickland | Grace Zabriskie | Bill Pullman | Rosa Blasi | Ted Raimi | Ryo Ishibashi | Yoko Maki | Yuya Ozeki | Takako Fuji | Takashi Matsuyama | Hiroshi Matsunaga
Directors: Takashi Shimizu
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Karen Davis is a woman residing in Japan with her boyfriend, who is studying there. Temporarily assigned to be caretaker for a woman with severe sleeping disorder, Karen goes to the patient’s house. What she finds is something she would never expect. The house is plagued by the presence of murderous ghosts, the result of a curse. The curse is born from someone dying in a powerful rage. Now, Karen finds herself being tormented by that curse, as it eventually starts claiming it’s victims.

Hot Fuzz (2007)

Friday, March 21st, 2008
Genres: Action | Comedy | Crime | Mystery
Countries: France | UK
Actors: Simon Pegg | Martin Freeman | Bill Nighy | Robert Popper | Joe Cornish | Chris Waitt | Eric Mason | Billie Whitelaw | Nick Frost | Peter Wight | Julia Deakin | Tom Strode Walton | Troy Woollan | Rory Lowings | Bill Bailey
Directors: Edgar Wright
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Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel (Pegg) is good. Too good. And to stop the rest of his team looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford. He is paired with Danny Butterman (Frost), who countlessly questions him on the action lifestyle. Everything seems quiet for Angel, until two actors are found decapitated. It is address to as an accident, but Angel isn’t going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead. Angel and Danny clash with everyone, whilst trying to uncover the truth behind the mystery of the apparent “acidents”.

In Cold Blood (1967)

Tuesday, February 26th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert Blake | Scott Wilson | John Forsythe | Paul Stewart | Gerald S. O'Loughlin | Jeff Corey | John Gallaudet | James Flavin | Charles McGraw | Will Geer | John McLiam | Ruth Storey | Brenda Currin | Paul Hough | Vaughn Taylor
Directors: Richard Brooks
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Truman Capote wrote the ‘non-fiction novel’ from which the film is drawn, using the novelist’s craft to render reality. The reality was that at two a.m. on November 15, 1959 in the rural town of Holcomb, Kansas, the four members of the Clutter family were roused from their sleep, bound and gagged, and then brutally murdered by two unknown assailants. After the latters’ capture, sentencing and imprisonment prior to execution, Capote researched the case thoroughly, spent weeks talking with the prisoners, Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, jurors, police, friends and neighbors, trying to unearth why such a senseless act was committed, and what society’s response might have been.

Saw (2004)

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008
Genres: Crime | Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cary Elwes | Dina Meyer | Danny Glover | Leigh Whannell | Ken Leung | Mike Butters
Directors: James Wan
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Two men wake up at opposite sides of a dirty, disused bathroom, chained by their ankles to pipes. Between them lies a dead man loosely clutching a hand-held tape player and a handgun. Each finds a tape the perfect fit for the player in their back pocket. They play the tapes. One is threatened, the other isn’t. But they have a task: One must kill the other by 6:00, or his wife and daughter will die. They find hacksaws in a toilet, and try to cut the chains, but it doesn’t work. They are the two newest victims of the Jigsaw Killer. In a flashback, we learn of Amanda, a girl who falls victim to the Jigsaw Killer. On her head is a mask, which is hooked into her lower jaw. There is a timer on it. Only one key will unlock it, and that key is in the digestive tract of her cell mate who lies paralyzed on the opposite side of the room. If she doesn’t unlock the mask in time, her lower jaw will be ripped wide open. She survives, but her cell mate doesn’t. Through a series of flashbacks, we learn of more victims, and of the nearly-successful capture of the Jigsaw Killer, who doesn’t actually kill his victims. Instead, he finds ways to make them kill either themselves, or each other, and he thinks the entire ‘game’ out perfectly, with no other ways out. Or so it would seem.

Jindabyne (2006)

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Australia
Actors: Laura Linney | Gabriel Byrne | Chris Haywood | Deborra-Lee Furness | John Howard | Leah Purcell | Stelios Yiakmis | Eva Lazzaro | Sean Rees-Wemyss | Alice Garner | Simon Stone | Betty Lucas | Stephen Barker | Max Cullen | Charles 'Bud' Tingwell
Directors: Ray Lawrence
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Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they continue fishing and report their gruesome find days later. Stewart’s wife Claire is the last to find out. Deeply disturbed by her husband’s action, her faith in her relationship with Stewart is shaken to the core. She wants to understand and tries to make things right. In her determination to help the victim’s family Claire sets herself not only against her own family and friends but also those of the dead girl. Her marriage is taken to the brink and her peaceful life with Stewart and their young son hangs in the balance. The story of a murder and a marriage. A powerful and original film about the things that haunt us.

Leon (Professional, The) (1994)

Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: Jean Reno | Gary Oldman | Natalie Portman | Danny Aiello | Peter Appel | Willi One Blood | Don Creech | Keith A. Glascoe | Alan Randolph Scott | Michael Badalucco | Ellen Greene | Elizabeth Regen | Carl J. Matusovich | Frank Senger | Lucius Wyatt Cherokee
Directors: Luc Besson
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Mathilda, a twelve-year old New York girl, is living an undesirable life among her half-family. Her father stores drugs for two-faced cop Norman Stansfield. Only her little brother keeps Mathilda from breaking apart. One day, Stansfield and his team take cruel revenge on her father for stretching the drugs a little, thus killing the whole family. Only Mathilda, who was out shopping, survives by finding shelter in Léon’s apartment in the moment of highest need. Soon, she finds out about the strange neighbour’s unusual profession - killing - and desperately seeks his help in taking revenge for her little brother. Léon, who is completely unexperienced in fatherly tasks, and in friendships, does his best to keep Mathilda out of trouble - unsuccessfully. Now, the conflict between a killer, who slowly discovers his abilities to live, to feel, to love and a corrupt police officer, who does anything in his might to get rid of an eye witness, arises to unmeasurable proportions - all for the sake of a little twelve-year old girl, who has nearly nothing to lose.

Helter Skelter (2004)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Horror
Countries: USA
Actors: Jeremy Davies | Clea DuVall | Allison Smith | Eric Dane | Mary Lynn Rajskub | Michael Weston | Hal Ozsan | Rick Gomez | Robert Joy | Graham Beckel | Chris Ellis | Isabella Hofmann | Robert Costanzo | Yvonne Delarosa | Crystal Rivers
Directors: John Gray
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A new take on the Manson Family murders, with a keen focus on Charles Manson himself.

Bone Collector, The (1999)

Monday, October 1st, 2007
Genres: Drama | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Denzel Washington | Angelina Jolie | Queen Latifah | Michael Rooker | Mike McGlone | Luis Guzmán | Leland Orser | John Benjamin Hickey | Bobby Cannavale | Ed O'Neill | Richard Zeman | Olivia Birkelund | Gary Swanson | James Bulleit | Frank Fontaine
Directors: Phillip Noyce
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Quadripeligic ex-cop Lincoln Rhyme was looking forward to his assisted suicide when he got the news: some sicko was abducting people in a taxi and leaving them to die in particularly sadistic ways. With time counting down between each abduction and possible death, Rhyme recruits rather-unwilling Amelia Donaghy, haunted by her cop father’s suicide and thinking she’s next, into working the crime scenes to track down the killer.

Gattaca (1997)

Wednesday, September 19th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ethan Hawke | Uma Thurman | Gore Vidal | Xander Berkeley | Jayne Brook | Elias Koteas | Maya Rudolph | Una Damon | Elizabeth Dennehy | Blair Underwood | Mason Gamble | Vincent Nielson | Chad Christ | William Lee Scott | Clarence Graham
Directors: Andrew Niccol
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Gattaca Corp. is an aerospace firm in the future. During this time society analyzes your DNA and determines where you belong in life. Ethan Hawke’s character was born with a congenital heart condition which would cast him out of getting a chance to travel in space. So in turn he assumes the identity of an athlete who has genes that would allow him to achieve his dream of space travel.